Ahmand Tea in UK and in Russia

Sorry about the colloquial. If I'm looking at tea boxes on a shelf the one with the brightest color, the oddest shape or even biggest might 'catch my eye'. Most European tea boxes are just fonts on a box. The Russian is scenic. One was a bearded rider on a blue elephant standing in front on an Indian square with a yellow background. Another one had a picture of Czar Nicholas II framed in what looked like gold foil.

Jim

for me at least, the first line is meaningless; the second and third perfectly readable cyrillic (by my poor understanding) apart from four squares at the end; the last line two characters (lower case Ts type sounds?) and lots of squares.

reading from a win 98 Int explorer without cyrillic installed

The problem tho' is that many folk don't want to install either MS type programs to access newsgroups or many different fonts to run in them. And then it's still chaotic... I try and access some Chinese web sites and get half the text in perfect chinese script (trad and simp), half in gibberish. I don't know much about newsgroups but I think the gist is to keep it to 26 letters / 10 numbers.

My best story about Ahmad Tea concerns a small box of Ahmad tea bags I bought in a London shop while on a visit a few years ago.

As a bonus, the company included a heavy, brass-plated key ring with "AHMAD" spelled out in large letters.

I'm sure the key ring cost far more than the tea itself. I still have it somewhere...

Joe

1. Every OS on the market today can read and input universal texts
2. It's not a question of using or installing specific MS programs.
3. You only need one complete Unicode font, not a bunch of fonts for every languages
4. Nothing is chaotic. All the technical solutions and standards are in place and effective.
5. Every functionalities of the Internet (WWW, newsgroups, emails, etc.) are, from the start, meant to be universal and independent from the user's platform.

Today, the only problem is the unwillingness of some ethnocentric Internauts to understand that the vast majority of the World Wide Web's users are not anymore only white english-speaking Americans.

So you are right. The problem is that some folks *don't want* to open themselves to other cultures and languages.

Hi,

As far as I know, there are only one true Russian tea. This tea originates from Krasnodar region. All remaining Russian teas are actually from Ceylon or from other countries, they just are packed in Russia. So, if you want to taste the real Russian tea, look for "Krasnodar" word (or "KPACHODAP" in cyrillic) on the box.

Yours sincerely, Alexey K. Russia

Hi!

Yes, the second and the third lines have Russian cyrillic and I can read it in Unicode UTF-8 encoding.

абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюяёђѓєѕіїјљњћќўџѢѣѪѫ

ҐґҒғҔҕҖҗҘҙҚқҜҝҞҟҠҡҢңҤҥҦҧҨҩҪҫҬҭҮүҰұҲҳҴҵҶҷҸҹҺһҼҽҾҿӀӁӂӃӄӇӈӋӌ

Alex tells us ...

As far as I know, there are only one true Russian tea. This tea originates from Krasnodar region. All remaining Russian teas are actually from Ceylon or from other countries, they just are packed in Russia. So, if you want to taste the real Russian tea, look for "Krasnodar" word (or "KPACHODAP" in cyrillic) on the box.

Yours sincerely, Alexey K. Russia

What luck! the "one true Russian tea" uses letters all available in the English alphabet! But again, Jim, if you did come across anything worth telling us about, please do.

Okay I'll try some English equivalent of the large leaf Russian Ceylon which I enjoyed. The only English is Ceylon Tea Black Big Leaf Produced in Ceylon Net Weight 250 Grams with equivalent Russian. On the box is an idyllic scene of a Russian woman sitting at a table with an ornate Samovar and cat purring on stand. On the table is a slice watermellon with bread and caviar. The background is pastoral with steeples. Now for the -Russian- 'Mancknn Yan Pycckoe Yaenhthe'. There is a Russian address for 'Mockba' but I'll give the phone number (095)961-35-81,961-35-97. All things being said the diversity of the local ethnic markets astounds me and I long thought in any big metro area it would be the same but I now think that isn't so. If we're missing anything it is African but we do have one Ethiopian store which carries the local Addis tea. The stores aren't in the phone book and you find them by cruising the ethnic enclaves. I enjoy ethnic food so I eat and shop.

Jim

Hi,

Thank you for URL. This is really cool!

Yours sincerely, Alexey K. Russia

Okay see if my OLE5 newsreader can handle cryillic characters using UTF-8. I fixed the newsreader ng posting problem so I don't need HTML. You won't see this again. Sorry for the inconvience.

МАЙСКИЙ УАЙ Русское Уаеинтне

Jim

"Alex" wrote

The drink was *called* "Russian Tea". Doesn't mean it's russian. Doesn't mean a Russian made it.

The same goes for a "Bloody Mary". You don't need to beat up a girl named Mary and draw blood from her to make one.

:-)

alt.test is your friend.

Laurent